What was the status of the Kongo Kingdom around 1700?
A) It was ruled by the Portuguese.
B) It had disintegrated into smaller states.
C) It had grown under the impetus of the slave trade.
D) It had consolidated and was the largest regional state.
Answer: B
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a. preserve the union. b. forestall anarchy. c. ensure the security of life and property. d. curb unrestrained democracy. e. foster the popular democracy and uprisings occurring in the various states.
The Holocaust refers to the
A) systematic extermination of those allies that opposed German rule. B) systematic genocide of Jews in Europe during World War II; also applied to the mass murder of all those, Jewish and non-Jewish, deemed to be racially inferior by the Nazi regime. C) relocation of Jews, gypsies, and others to the ghettoes of Europe. D) mass exodus of Jews out of Europe during World War II. E) relocation of Germans out of allied held territories after World War II.
Most southern slaves used technologies closely associated with __________
A) cultivating and processing agricultural commodities B) small-scale manufacturing and industry C) medicine and health practices D) the fishing and mining industries